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website it's topics the podcast where two comedians discuss serious topics in a serious way

although if something funny happens, that's okay too.

I'm Michael Ian Black, joined as always by Michael Schoalter. Hi, Michael.

Hey, Mike. It's good to be here. It's always a treat to really get our beaks wet in some of

these topics, topics that I feel are underserved by the lame stream media.

You know, if the lame stream media just paid more attention to some of these topics,

we wouldn't have to do it.

Although I have to be honest, I'm glad they don't because I love spending this time with you.

Well, obviously, they have their own agenda.

Yeah.

And the good thing about this show is that we're here to tell the truth

and we're not financed by any sort of corporate interests or...

Well, we are because we have sponsors.

Well, yeah. But they support our agenda and our agenda is to tell the truth.

Yeah.

You know, sometimes I feel like some of these television networks, they're, they're in it,

you know, really just to make money.

And that's a shame.

Because the public airwaves could be such a unique public trust where if it was just educational programming, I can't even imagine where the world would be today.

You know, instead of Baywatch, it was Boolean algebra.

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